单词 | piscatory |
释义 | piscatoryn.adj. A. n. A literary work portraying the lives of fishermen or anglers. Cf. pastoral n. 3a. rare.Chiefly with reference to the work of the Italian poet, Jacopo Sannazaro (1485–1530) (cf. quot. 1685 at sense B. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1631 P. Fletcher (title) Sicelides, a piscatory, as it hath beene acted in Kings Colledge, in Cambridge. 1913 Mod. Lang. Notes 28 26/2 Sannazaro..is treated in very perfunctory fashion. His relations to Virgil and to Theocritus are stated only in rather general terms, and so is his influence upon the later piscatory. 1939 T. P. Harrison Pastoral Elegy 11 The Italian poet [sc. Sannazaro] established the type by composing a series of piscatories, which alone were to define the scope of the meagre genre. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to fishing, fishermen, or anglers; spec. designating literary works portraying the lives of fishermen or anglers, esp. in piscatory eclogue (cf. pastoral adj. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [adjective] piscatory1633 piscatoriala1635 piscary1727 piscatorical1848 halieutic1854 1633 P. Fletcher (title) The Purple Island..together with Piscatorie Eclogs. 1685 N. Tate tr. G. Sannazaro in Poems by Several Hands 361 (title) Third piscatory eclogue. 1706 W. Walsh Let. 24 June in Lett. Mr. Pope (1735) I. 57 In looking over my old Italian Books, I find a great many Pastorals and Piscatory Plays. 1739 M. Browne Poems 1 (title) An essay in defence of piscatory eclogue. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 36. ⁋9 To substitute fishermen for shepherds, and derive his sentiments from the piscatory life. 1829 Times 6 Oct. 4/2 The rude implements necessary to carry on the piscatory occupations of its hardy and primitive sons. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 163 Piscatory heirlooms and relics. 1912 H. M. Hall Idylls of Fishermen 201 (heading) Bibliography of piscatory literature. 1938 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 30 Apr. 9/1 Much to the content of..members of the faculty with piscatory interests, fishing season opened on the first day of the Easter vacation. 1988 Herald (Australia) (Nexis) 29 Mar. (Style section) 3 We travelled to various fishing piers almost every weekend, gradually gaining piscatory expertise. 2. That catches fish; that goes fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [adjective] piscatory1661 piscatorian1687 piscatorious1799 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5v Sea gull, white, cinereous, piscatorie. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 271 The salmon, which are..as important to the piscatory tribes as are the buffaloes to the hunters of the prairies. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 23 82 Every Malayan settlement is invariably found to be on a river, a location to be expected from a people less agricultural than maritime and piscatory. 1958 T. Wilkins Clarence King xix. 324 The Tuxedo Club.., a piscatory Four Hundred bound together in the interests of exclusive fraternity and gamy fish. 2000 Australian (Nexis) 11 Oct. b01 There is more to fishing than catching fish, says a piscatory Nicholas Shakespeare. 3. = piscine adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] piscine1670 ichthyological1716 piscatorya1777 finny1831 ichthyic1846 piscatorial1853 ichthyal1874 a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 60 Certain animalculæ, or piscatory entities, that insinuate themselves thro' the pores into the blood. 1842 United Service Mag. 1 349 The upper part being human, the lower part, from the hips, piscatory. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iv. 12 The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went to be dipped in the sea. 1935 Times 19 Jan. 10/1 An embarrassing variety of piscatory delicacies, from fines de belon to pilaff de crevettes au curry. 2002 Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 2 a These incessant fish fries..sacrifice innocent piscatory lives. Compounds piscatory ring n. the signet ring worn by the Pope in his role as the successor of St Peter. rare.With reference to Matthew 4:19, in which Jesus invites the fishermen Peter and James to become fishers of men. ΚΠ 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 296 The Pope dy'd.., and immediately the Piscatory Ring was broken by Cardinal Barbarino. 2000 A. Roberts in Ld. Tennyson Major Wks. 616 (note) Fishy (with a play on the fact that the Pope wears a signet ring called the ‘piscatory ring’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1631 |
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